Posted by
grad_1986 on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:25:03 PM
Now some are going to click into this article thinking I am going to give some lecture on faith in God or the Bible. To them, I apologize for misleading them. But I ask them to please read on as this is almost as important as those subjects.
Recently, a conservative in New York was able to oust a "moderate" Republican from a congressional race. That person was Doug Hoffman. A virtual unknown until a few weeks ago who captured the attention of our country and our party. In recent years we have been convinced by so-called "party leaders" that true conservatives cannot win in elections today. That we need moderates like John McCain to lead us and be able to "reach across the aisle" to get things done. But apparently no one told Doug this and he ran anyway. His opponent, dropped out of the race for the "good of the party", but then later gave her endorsement to the DEMOCRATIC candidate. I guess she was a GOP member in name only.... a virtual wolf-in-sheeps-clothing. Evidently she was not a "true believer" in the true conservative principals of:
- A free and unfettered market
- A limited government
- Lower taxes
- Self Reliance
- Self Control
These principals are only just words to the likes of moderates like her.
So just what is a moderate? To me it's someone who doesn't know what they believe. They have a foot in the water and a foot on the beach at the same time (you are not going to have much fun there until you choose where you are ultimately going to be). If I may quote a verse from the Bible, God says to the Church in Revelation 3:16, "So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth" and that is how I feel about moderate republicans candidates. I love the taste of coffee ( I probably drink too much of it for my own good). You can drink it HOT or you can drink it COLD (ice coffee), but if you have ever drank a coffee that has sitting out and has turned room temperature, it almost make you vomit it's so bad. You have to either put some ice cubes in it or put into the microwave to make it desirable again.
That is where we are at in the GOP. Voters are giving the GOP the message: Either you BELIEVE or you DON'T BELIEVE. Ronald Reagan believed in the American dream and its ideals. He lead with that belief and we gladly followed. He didn't need think-tanks and marketing groups to word-smith his ideas to be palatable to 51% of the American public. He believed that less government was BETTER government. He believed in MAIN STREET and not WALL STREET. He believed in everyday Americans and not in Washington.
Today's politicians remind me of a story on "faith" I read as a child. In the story, a man traveling by foot in winter comes to a very large frozen lake and he needs to cross to the other side. He decides that the "safest" way to cross is to get down on his belly and spread his weight over the most ice and slither across the lake. After an hour of crawlling he is cold and nearly frozen, when he suddenly feels a rumbling underneath him. Astonished he sees a man driving a team of 6 horses pulling a wagon full of lumber across the ice. Who had more faith in the ice? The man crawling on his belly and spreading himself out over the ice? Or the man driving the team of horses?
Our politicians are the man crawling on his belly. Trying to please everyone because they are too afraid of losing their jobs. They have no faith in US, the American people. They have no faith in the free market and capitalism. They have no faith in the Constitution they are supposed to be guarding for us. They have no faith in the freedom of speech and our ability to be civil. They have no faith in our ability to protect ourselves and to limit our own use of guns. And because THEY don't believe in thos principals, they think we don't believe in them either. They only see us as sheep to sheered and manipulated and themselves as the enlightened ones. They only see through focus groups, infomercials, seminars and endless legislation and 2000 page bills. They see themselves as our nations "saviors" and not us.
So my question to other GOP leaders and politiicans is this.....
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE?